Dmoz is using extremely bad mail "system" / "program"

[howhong]

I understand many of member of Dmoz can read or write english. However, many of them can not. Today, I received an email written in sim. chinese / traditional chinese. I am not sure because as I programmer like me, I believe this email encoded wrongly.

 

I believe Dmoz does not has a seasoned programmer. If not, why does Dmoz not care about language coding??

[chaos127]

It would probably help us look into the problem is you could tell us what the email was about. Was it a rejection of an editor application for example? Also what mail client / system are you using to view the mail?

 

We have lots of international editors, and obviously need to make sure we don't have any character encoding issues especially with non-latin character sets. I think all the outgoing email messages are now encoded using UTF-8, if that means anything to you.